Beyond the stadium: how “ultra” supporters fit into the urban space

Bérangère Ginhoux & translated by Oliver Waine — 2015-12-11T05:55:00Z

Based on an ethnographic survey conducted in Saint-Étienne, in south-eastern France, Bérangère Ginhoux shows how the activities of “ultras” groups extend beyond the stadium and are very much present in the urban space. She describes their quest for visibility in the public space and reveals how the city becomes the object of a symbolic competition between different groups.
Claiming to be part of a movement that emerged in Italian football stadiums in the 1960s and present in France since the

- From the Field / France, public space, local attachment, territory, sport, use of space, supporters, football, ultras, Saint-Étienne, social group

Beyond dreams of village life: residential clubs and clubbisation

Éric Charmes & translated by Oliver Waine — 2011-10-26T05:00:00Z

At a time of increasing “metropolisation” and ever greater pressure on mobility, how can neighbourhood attachments be explained? These phenomena, far from being contradictory, would in fact appear to be two sides of the same coin. What's more, although city-dwellers remain attached to the neighbourhood in which they live, these attachments are changing, too. Using analyses developed in his recent work La ville émiettée (“The Fragmented City”), published by Presses Universitaires de France, Éric

- Essays / clubbisation, gated communities, periurban, mobility, local attachment

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Beyond the stadium: how “ultra” supporters fit into the urban space

Beyond dreams of village life: residential clubs and clubbisation